The Human Evasion
by Celia Green
- Sanity
- The Characteristics of Sanity
- The Genesis of Sanity
- The Society of the Sane
- How To Write Sane Books
- The Sane Person Talks of Existence
- The Sane Person Talks of God
- The Religion of Evasion
- The Philosophy of Evasion
- The Science of Evasion
- The Alternative to Sanity: What Would It Be Like?
- Christ
- Nietzsche
- Why The World Will Remain Sane
Foreword
One way of seeing reality is to see the appearances we usually take for it inside-out, back-to-front or looking-glass fashion. This is very difficult to do, considering how habituated we are to those appearances. It is also very difficult to be witty about vital and essential matters, though that is one of the best hopes we have of seeing them objectively, which is about the only hope we have of seeing them at all. Miss Green has achieved the looking-glass vision and the wit. Many, therefore, will call her too clever by half, forgetting that one of the things she is saying is that we are not half clever enough, for the very reason that we lack her witty vision because we wear the blinkers of our belief in appearances. So anyone who reads this book (as opposed to merely reading its words) must be prepared to be profoundly disturbed, upset and in fact looking-glassed himself; which will be greatly to his advantage, if he can stand it. Few books, long or short, are great ones; this book is short and among those few. One day, perhaps, it will become part of holy writ: a gospel according to Celia Green. Which kind of "insane" statement belongs to the book's own kind of truth. —R. H. Ward
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